Malhotra Group subsidiary Prestwick Care has unveiled plans to build a £10m care home in Ashington, Northumberland.
Prestwick has lodged paperwork with Northumberland County Council to create a 58-bed facility those in need of general nursing and elderly people with decreased mental capacity, along with a second, 12-bed specialist unit.
The second, single-storey unit is planned to be equipped to care for young, physically disabled people and those suffering from brain injuries.
The proposed Ashington development will be built on 1.75 acres of what is currently brownfield land, which was previously occupied by Essendene care home before it was demolished.
Malhotra said the Ashington care home will be environmentally friendly.
“The quality of the facility will be first class and will include designed features to ensure it feels like a real home,” said project director Ian Tubman.
“The secure and well maintained gardens will include planting to encourage wildlife, while also being attractive for the residents to use,” he added.
The scheme is designed by Space Architects, who said the challenge of the project is to “provide unashamedly contemporary buildings accommodating the very best in care facilities, while at the same time fully respecting the landscaped site and the parkland and residential surroundings.”
“Allowing these contextual parameters to interact with the programmatic requirements of these two independent but complementary buildings has produced an interesting and rich design,” said Space Architects director David Coundon.
